FFmpeg Documentation
Reporting Bugs
Want to report a bug? Help us help you: The FFmpeg developers will be able to better diagnose the problem if you follow these bug reporting guidelines.
General Documentation
- Frequently Asked Questions
- General Documentation
- Libavfilter Documentation
- Developer Documentation
- FFmpeg Windows Help discusses all issues regarding FFmpeg under Windows including a wiki and help forums.
- FFmpeg on Mac OS X HOWTO explains installing and using FFmpeg on Mac OS X.
Command Line Interface (CLI) and Related Usage Documentation
- FFmpeg Documentation
- FFplay Documentation
- FFprobe Documentation
- FFserver Documentation
- Sample ffserver configuration file
API Documentation
- Doxygen documentation for current trunk (regenerated nightly); documentation for the 0.6 and 0.5 branches is also available.
- FFmpeg codec HOWTO, describes how to add a codec to libavcodec.
- FFmpeg demuxer HOWTO, describes how to add a (de)muxer to libavformat.
- FFmpeg filter HOWTO, describes how to add a filter to libavfilter.
Tutorials
- Using libavformat and libavcodec by Martin Böhme, a good overview of the FFmpeg APIs.
- An FFmpeg and SDL Tutorial by Stephen Dranger, explains how to write a video player based on FFmpeg.
